Covid-positive Rohit faces race against time to play Edgbaston Test – ESPNcricinfo

SLAUSDay 2 – Australia lead by 101 runs.SA-WENG-WMatch drawnUSANAMNamibia won by 6 wickets (with 6 balls remaining)SGPMALMalaysia won by 5 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)EnglandIndiaMatch yet to beginShould Rohit miss the Test, Jasprit Bumrah will captain the team for the first time Rohit has not yet been ruled out – DravidNagraj Gollapudi is news editor […]

Fewer than 400 young kids get COVID-19 vaccine in Polk County – Axios

Des MoinesAxios Des Moines is an Axios company.Local families in central Iowa have been slow to vaccinate their young kids from COVID-19.Driving the news: 334 kids under 5 years old have received the vaccine in Polk County as of June 28, according to the local health department.Of note: The CDC’s vaccine clearance for kids 6 months […]

Flight from cities due to COVID-19 short-lived, says flagship UN-Habitat report – UN News

SubscribeAudio HubA new United Nations report says that rapid urbanization was only temporarily delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the global urban population back on track to grow by another 2.2 billion people by 2050.The large-scale flight from major cities in the early stages of the pandemic to the perceived safety of the countryside, or […]

Quality of care in the COVID-19 context: a multi-country perspective – World Health Organization

In December 2021, the WHO Global Learning Laboratory issued a call for submissions for action briefs from countries which described initiatives, large or small, that aimed to improve or simply maintain the delivery of quality care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Four action briefs and one knowledge brief describe in detail the learnings from low- and […]

Awake prone positioning does not offer benefit in reducing intubation for COVID-19 induced acute respiratory failure – Science Daily

A large multicenter, randomized clinical trial revealed no difference in the risk of endotracheal intubation requirement at 30 days between awake prone positioning and standard positioning for patients with COVID-19 who suffered from acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, according to research published in JAMA by researchers at UTHealth Houston.Given the concern of limited resources during the […]

If you keep testing positive for COVID, when can you stop isolating? : Shots – Health News – NPR

Will Stone The science isn’t entirely settled on whether a rapid antigen test indicates whether a person is still contagious. Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images hide caption The science isn’t entirely settled on whether a rapid antigen test indicates whether a person is still contagious.Many Americans have wrestled with this dilemma at some point during the pandemic, […]